Savage Beauty

Wacky Wednesdays with Jenbiff

This past Sunday was the final day of Alexander McQueen exhibit: Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Of course I waited until the final day to go see it with Vicki and Christine…go figure! Despite the 1 hour wait in the heat and the 2 hour wait in the Met, the exhibit was worth every second waiting and anticipating. Let me show you how it began:

Entrance to the exhibit (Photo Credit: Whattowearwhere.com/blog)

 

 

 

 

 

First room in Savage Beauty (Photo Credit: Met website)

I knew this was going to be good once seeing these. As I walked through the first room there was some of his senior collection from college called: Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims (1992)-sort of seen in the far right of the second picture(It's kinda pink). Holy Tailored! On the opposite side of the room were more tailored garments including the famous extremely low rise pant. I would like to take this moment to thank McQueen for introducing the world to low rise and eventually the muffin top. Next time Kate Moss and Gisele Bundchen are the only ones allowed to wear them because I'm pretty sure there are many men (and maybe even some women) who would enjoy the view.

In the next room there were more beautiful pieces and at the end of the room were pieces from his final collection in a glass case. A-Maz-Ing! And totally way better in person than on WWD.com. Continued to the next room and you are surrounded by many hats, head pieces, and more garments. Around the top of the room were 8 TV screens playing clips of different runway shows that Mcqueen produced. Like This, This, and This. Then once you finish looking at all of the pieces and watching the videos in this room there is another room with pieces from Highland Rape, Widows of Culloden, and The Girl Who Lived in a Tree which take a lot of influence from his Scottish heritage.

The Girl Who Lived in a Tree (Photo Credit: Met website)

 You would be silly to think that was the end (not going to lie I worried for about 7 seconds). But there were 4 more rooms of stunning craftsmanship and creativity along with more videos and holograms. Seeing it all in person was way better then seeing it on the internet! You were able to see how much detail, how vibrant, and (almost able to) feel the variety of textures--which ranged from horse hair, beads, leather, seashells, etc. And I know that I'm not the only one who was this amazed. According to the New York Times 650,000 people went to the exhibit since it opened on May 4th; and on the last day? 15,000 people, two of which were yours truly, and Christine. 

Between 1992 and 2011 McQueen showed the world so much creativity and when he left this world it was certainly a huge loss. It was really exciting to see in person (and not all behind glass) his master pieces that I had seen so many times on the internet and in magazines. BUT if you weren't able to make it to heaven on earth, the book you could have bought in the book store is available online, Here, and probably anywhere else you could buy books online. I truly believe when I die, this is where I will go. Thank you Lee. Rest in Peace.

(Photo Credit: Google Images)

I would like to wish a happy birthday to my cousin, Michael!

Quote of the week: “You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”

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